The great Gatsby Chapter Four

Chapter Four

·         How to portray The great Gatsby

-         Chapter Four

·         Why would Gatsby be the type of character to throw lavish Parties? But wants discretion with the type of work he does as we later found out though the story as it unfolds.

Thoughts – this would be the type of question I would ask myself, as to why Gatsby has a contradicting and contrasting personality. Gatsby is a quiet person and yet manages to throw the most lavish parties within his big extravagant mansion; thereby society’s entire elite make an appearance. There are such contradicting sides to Gatsby as Fitzgerald portrays him as a quiet character in the way he also achieved his success in dodgy dealings.

Q. But then how long can that go on when you let everyone who you don’t know into your house – making assumptions and speculating about the type of person you are or where you come from – which brings the point of wanting secrecy come with a lot of discrete dealings I.e. – not drawing attention to yourself- so why would you risk all of that is another question I would ask myself.

·         Nick didn’t expect Gatsby to ever make an appearance to him in particular.

·         I suppose you could argue that he always remained a mysterious person people gave him the reputation of being quiet a respectable “Rich” man, even though behind his back people are talking about him and judging him without knowing him

·         ‘Good Morning, Old sport. You’re having lunch with me today and I thought we’d ride up together’

·         The fact that Gatsby approached Nick, surprises him when Gatsby asks nick about ‘how nick finds him?’ I find it very interesting and unexpected as a man with that much to his name and status would not ask anybody what they think about him – he wouldn’t even care – This is the part where I really find Gatsby interesting as it is again unexpected.

·         ‘What’s your opinion of me anyhow? ‘Well, I’m going to tell you something about my life’, he interrupted’. I don’t want you to get the wrong idea of me from all these stories you here’.

·         Q. why does Gatsby want Nick in particular not to have any wrong impressions of him? At this point there seems to be a sort of ‘proving’ if you will not just to Nick but to society as well that he is genuinely the person he presents himself to be.